M 5.5 Off-shore on 12 Jul 2016 06:41 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1089813
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.8906 , 57.2387
Event Date: 12 Jul 2016 06:41 UTC
12 Jul 2016 10:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jul 2016 07:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100062ue Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 731 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Sismo hizo temblar a los trujillanosSat, 16 Jul 2016 04:36:00 +0200.

Daniela Testa/ECS.- Algunos optaron por quedarse en sus camas mientras observaban como todo temblaba a su alrededor, a otros les ganó el desespero y entre gritos y oraciones salieron despavoridos a las calles para encontrarse con sus vecino
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Kathmandu to have a park in each wardSat, 16 Jul 2016 01:53:00 +0200.

Kathmandu, July 15. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City plans to develop at least one park in each ward, and construction works have already started for the same in wards 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 18, and 35. “There are 35 wards in Kathmandu. Open spa
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yaesta.com, la tienda online que canalizó vía Internet ayuda para damn ... Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:38:00 +0200.

Martin Jara y Alejandro Freud son los creadores de esta tienda virtual que hoy es reconocida a escala internacional por la ayuda brindada durante la catástrofe. En una conversación con el programa “El Poder de la Palabra” de ecuadorinmediat
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Panic over Suspected Earth Tremor in Bayelsa, RiversFri, 15 Jul 2016 23:16:00 +0200.

Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa. A suspected earth tremor in parts of Bayelsa and Rivers States has caused palpable apprehension among residents of the affected communities in the two oil-rich states. Residents of the areas noted that the tremor
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),